★DISCUSSION of ACT 55~PLDC★ (Public Land Development Corporation) Monday, DEC. 3, PAIA Community Center’s Main Hall, 7pm UPCOUNTRY SUSTAINABILITY hosts Mahina Martin and Lucienne de Naie will present their research on the controversial PLDC recently passed by the legislature. Specifically, they will address: ~How Act 55 evolved legislatively (using some of Gary Hooser’s insight/info) ~The […]
Megamall Hearing: Evidence Finished
[Dick] Mayer characterized light industrial use as one that would provide full-time, well-paid jobs to local residents and ownership opportunities to local businesses. Retail use, he said, might provide many jobs, but they would be low-wage positions that were likely to be part-time and provide few benefits to employees. He also claimed that monies generated by the shopping centers would mostly benefit off-island owners and that an influx of big-box tenants would be detrimental to the existing locally owned small businesses in Kihei.
State Official: [megamall] “Plan clearly different”
A state Office of Planning official said that developers of two large retail centers and 250 affordable housing units in Kihei should have filed a motion with the state Land Use Commission to amend conditions placed on the parcel that was initially proposed as a light industrial park. “This is a clearly different project than […]
Testify: Put Green Areas Back into Maui Island Plan
Subject: Take Makena 390 acres Urban back out of the plan & Put Back In the Green Areas Message: Makena Resort – 390 more acres of development? Not Needed, Not Wanted, Not Deserved! Green areas, parks, preservation turned into nonbinding diagrams? Maui Island Plan has turned into a Growth Plan not a Green Plan Who […]
Mahina Martin Testifies at PLDC
Maui opponent Mahina Martin flew to Honolulu to attend today’s meeting, criticizing the agency in part for holding a single state-wide followup hearing on O’ahu, which she said was difficult for neighbor islanders to attend.
Life of the Land PLDC Testimony 10-13-2012
re: Proposed Adoption of Hawaii Administrative Rules This meeting is not listed on the PLDC “2012 Board Meeting” Web page (20 nor is it listed on the Hawaii eGov Calendar site.2 The PLDC has posted its proposed rules on the DLNR website.(3) Life of the Land was born in 1970, before the first Earth Day […]